ANCIENT RELIGIONS OF THE SUBCONTINENT

• LITTLE TREASURE WAS STOLEN FROM THE PADMANABHA SWAMY TEMPLE BECAUSE IT WAS SAID TO BE HOLY AND PROPERTY OF THE GODS
• THE LOWER CASTE WERE LOOKED DOWN UPON AND CONTROLLED WHICH IS WHY THEY RESENTED THE BRAHMINS
• JAINISM CHALLENGED BRAHMIN 'S POWER BY SEEKING NON-VIOLENCE AND LETTING PEOPLE OUT OF THE CASTE CAGE AND LIVING FREELY
• THE CASTE SYSTEM BELIEVED IN KARMA
• A RITUAL BATH WAS FOUND IN MOHENJO-DARO WHICH COULD BE USED FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES
• IN INDUS VALLEY TERACCOTA FIGURES THAT MAY REPRESENT GODDESS SHIVE ALONG WITH ANIMAL SACRIFICES
• BRAHMINS KSHATRIYAS VAISHYAS SHUDRA
• NIRWANA MEANS THE SOUL ESCAPING CYCLE OF REINCARNATION
• BUDDHISM DECLINED ON THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT BECAUSE HINDUISM WAS STRONGLY BELIEVED IN AND AFTER THE 12 CENTURY MUSLIM INVASION IS WHY THEY BECAME EVEN MORE CHALLENGED
• BUDDHISM WAS THE MOST APPEALING BECAUSE OF ITS SIMPLICITY , EMOTIONAL COMPONENT , ETHICAL CODE AND EQUALITY
• HINDUS CLAIMED THAT BUDDHA WAS THEIR GOD KRISHNA IN HUMAN FORM
• HINDUISM HAS MANY GODS
• jainism was founded by mahavira
• jainism was the same as hindu vedic religion
• buddhist teaching was a threat to the caste system
• tripilaka is the buddhist sculpture that constains a teahing of buddha in the from of descorces
• buddha attained enlightment under a bathi tree
• brahma is the supreme god in hinduism
• ahisma is the term for non violence in jainism
• vedas is the holy scripture in hinduism
• greek political ideas have influenced modern forms of government . greek pottery and sculputres have influenced modern art greek lyrics and dramatic poetry is still read around the world
• buddhist were succesful in challenging brahmin power by giving enlightment and letting people out of the cast system